Mary: A Fiction
- ISBN-10
- 1523768614
- ISBN-13
- 9781523768615
- Series
- Mary
- Pages
- 72
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-03-21
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Author
- Mary Wollstonecraft
Description
Mary, the heroine of this fiction, was the daughter of Edward, who married Eliza, a gentle, fashionable girl, with a kind of indolence in her temper, which might be termed negative good-nature: her virtues, indeed, were all of that stamp. She carefully attended to the shews of things, and her opinions, I should have said prejudices, were such as the generality approved of. She was educated with the expectation of a large fortune, of course became a mere machine: the homage of her attendants made a great part of her puerile amusements, and she never imagined there were any relative duties for her to fulfil:
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